"We cannot be what we cannot see": GenderIT.org maps gaps in research in...
The articles in this bilingual edition point to how visibility, a complicated phenomenon in itself, is the starting point of a different way of being, and how the stories we tell – entangled in the...
View ArticleInside the Information Society: Exploring Africa’s research priorities
Last week I participated in / facilitated a workshop on Africa’s research priorities for the Information Society. What follows are some thoughts arising.
View Article"All that you walk on to get there": New GenderIT.org edition shares feminist...
This edition is a collection of essays and reflexive writings on feminist ways of knowing, and practices and priorities in feminist internet research. The focus is particularly on how there are added...
View ArticleTransforming structures of power through feminist internet research
Digital technologies are becoming ever more a part of our world, and we need to (re)claim an internet that integrates and respects our different realities, contexts, ages, disabilities, sexualities,...
View ArticleBottom-up Connectivity Strategies: Meet the community networks studied during...
The research report "Bottom-up Connectivity Strategies: Community-led small-scale telecommunication infrastructure networks in the global South" explores the benefits of, and challenges facing,...
View ArticleBottom-up Connectivity Strategies: Why do communities decide to build their...
The research report "Bottom-up Connectivity Strategies: Community-led small-scale telecommunication infrastructure networks in the global South" explores the benefits of, and challenges facing,...
View Article72% of Palestinians have been exposed to misleading news - 7amleh’s new...
This research is part of 7amleh’s ongoing series of publications on Palestinian digital rights in order to raise awareness and create a knowledge base for advocacy work.
View ArticleDay 5 of the Internet Rules workshop: Strengthening advocacies and...
How do we continually engage stakeholders in advocating for digital rights? How do we expand and reach more people despite limited resources? These were some of the key questions discussed during the...
View ArticleHow feminist research shapes AI, privacy and data protection discourse
In this second post in a series on artificial intelligence (AI) research in the African context, Chenai Chair shares why she believes that a feminist approach to research around AI is the only way.
View ArticleFirst results of internet research with a feminist approach
We are pleased to announce the launch of the Feminist Internet Research Network (FIRN) website. The site's goal is to gather in one place the results of FIRN research projects, which aim to provide...
View ArticleEROTICS Regional Survey learnings (2): Understanding access and expression,...
Srinidhi Raghavan, coordinator of the EROTICS Regional Survey 2020, shares her learnings from cross-country feminist research on the internet and sexuality through the lens of the Feminist Principles...
View ArticleWhite paper on feminist internet research
APC has been working towards imagining and making a feminist internet by building and strengthening networks of researchers, activists and others. This paper aims to assess feminist internet research...
View ArticleFeminist by Design: How to build a feminist internet and why it matters
"Feminist by Design", an edition of the APRIA journal, is ambitious in its title and aims. It showcases research journeys, findings and feminist intentions, bringing together a diverse group of...
View ArticleFeminist by Design: Feminist internet research is messy
Feminist internet research is messy and conducting meta-research on feminist internet research is even messier. This critically reflective article argues that the messiness of research is not something...
View ArticleFeminist by Design: COVID-19, homophobia and the Bolsonarista vernacular
After the election of Jair Bolsonaro as president, Brazilian social media became an increasingly fertile ground for the exercise of public violence. This article focuses on two episodes that illustrate...
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